*Eirin Yagokoro is sent to retrieve [[Kaguya Houraisan]], but betrays the moon and establishes [[Eientei]]. (That [[Yukari Yakumo]] already recognizes and knows of the Watatsukis, but does not recognize Eirin as the Brain of the Moon, could hint that the Genso-Lunar war took place after Eirin had already left the Moon.)

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*Eirin Yagokoro is sent to retrieve [[Kaguya Houraisan]], but betrays the moon and establishes [[Eientei]].

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Latest revision as of 23:13, 23 May 2020

Below is a timeline of events within the Touhou Project universe. Please note that there is speculation involved in the dating of some events.

There are two calendars in common use in Gensokyo: the Gregorian calendar, which is the main calendar used by Gensokyo's inhabitants, and a youkai lunisolar calendar, which is generally restricted to Youkai Mountain.[1] The youkai calendar is based on the phase of the moon - as a result, it runs somewhat offset from ours. All events in this timeline will use the Gregorian calendar with estimated youkai calendar dates in brackets for important events where they can be deduced (under the assumption that the youkai calendar is determined in the same way as the Japanese lunisolar calendar), except for articles from the Bunbunmaru Newspaper and the Kakashi Spirit News, which are originally dated in the youkai calendar (the numbering is assumed to represent issue numbers in each month; see Notes below for more details). CE (Common Era) and BCE (Before Common Era) are used instead of AD and BC.

Years are numbered as "Season X", where season 0 equates to 1885. This is therefore conjectured to be the year that the Great Hakurei Barrier was created.

The lunisolar calendar uses the traditional names of the Japanese months, from the old lunar calendar. In outside Japan, these were discarded in favor of simple numbered months (ichigatsu, nigatsu, etc.) with the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, but are still commonplace in poetry and historical television.

In addition, the calendar also has an intercalary month, simply named "Thirteenth Month".[1] The method for determining placement of the intercalary month is unknown.

New Year's in Gensokyo is believed to be on the 1st of the Deutzia Month.
For the purpose of this timeline the months are numbered the same as their corresponding months in the Japanese calendar (e.g. Uzuki = 4).

The life that arose from the seas battled for existence, and its conclusion (Late Devonian extinction 374 million years ago?) resulted in the oceans being tainted with impurity. The survivors of the fight for survival advanced their way onto land, which then knew no impurity.[5]

As the White Rabbit of Inaba was even further in the past than the tenson kourin, and this tenson kourin was more than 1,792,470 years before Emperor Jimmu went on his eastern expedition.

Emperor Jimmu's father Ugayafukiaezu lived several hundreds of thousands of years (comment on Keine's spell card Origin Sign "Ephemerality 137")(as the child and great-grandchild, about 1.79 million ÷ about 3 ≈ several hundred thousands of years, and indirectly contains the topic of the tenson kourin.)

Lord Daikoku (Ookuninushi) seems to be a fine young man, and the girl rabbits seem to adore him

Japanese mythology

Surrender of the country

Amatsukami plundered Ookuninushi's country, but fearing a rebellion from Ookuninushi, Ookuninushi was sealed in Izumo Temple using femto fiber.[8]

Konohana-Sakuyahime compared the heights of Mount Fuji and Yatsugatake.

Since Yatsugatake was higher, by the enraged Sakuyabime, Yatsugatake was broken, and became its current form.

Iwanagahime, tired of this kind of little sister, left Mount Fuji, and moved to the Yatsugatake that had become short and unattractive.

The Yatsugatake that was once Japan's highest mountain turned into illusion, and became Youkai Mountain

Iwanagahime furthermore, at around the time of 100 years ago, moved to Gensokyo's Youkai Mountain (once Yatsugatake)

In the variations of the legend of the mountain comparison, in this instance there was also one where a shed teardrop became Lake Suwa (Suwa-ko). The tale of the god of Mount Tateshina crying and the tale of the god of Yatsugatake crying has various patterns. Within it, there was also the theory that Mount Yatsugatake was once the Izu Islands.

Houyi becomes a ruler of the Xia dynasty. He would later cause the death of Junko's son, Bó Fēng. She later would corroborate with one of Houyi's ministers (possibly Feng Meng) to assassinate her husband to avenge her son.

Far in the past

Tsukuyomi takes his relatives to move to the moon. Development of the lunar capital, start of lunarian civilization.

The lunar capital was constructed by Eirin Yagokoro. Eirin lived even longer than Tsukuyomi, and her age was stated by ZUN to be in the hundreds of millions.[10]

Lunarians living in a pure land have no life span.

Tsukuyomi (Possibly Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto) seems to be related to Amaterasu Oomikami as siblings.

Chinese mythology

Chang'e (also known by the Japanese pronunciation of Jouga) drank the elixir of immortality and went to the moon.

The era of the legend of Chang'e was in the time of 22 centuries BCE (more than 4100 years ago)

The mochi pounding (medicine pounding) that the rabbits pound has gone on for several thousands of years.

Japanese mythology

Great Suwa War

At those times, Suwako Moriya's leading edge was iron weapons, but Kanako was able to rust the entire arsenal by holding out a thin vine, and as a result they surrendered.

Iron was imported into Japan at around 300 CE, however the usage of iron itself (including places outside Japan) has been recorded previously, and so determining the era of this is difficult

In the "Treatise on Geography" (地理志) in the Book of Han, it is said that in the later Han dynasty it was divided into a hundred or more countries, and if it is the case that "the expansion of the Yamato State = the invasion of Kanako and other Yamato gods," then it would have occurred in the first few centuries CE.

Furthermore, by research in recent years, as a united country the Yamato State came into existence in the latter half of the third century, and it has been considered that in half of the fourth century, it expanded its territory into the Kōshin'etsu and Tōhoku regions.

In the genealogy of the Moriya family, the Moriya god was the first generation, the adoption of Mononobe no Moriya's child was the 26th generation, and is currently in the 78th generation.

However, concerning Touhou, it is not Moriya, but Kochiya.

Basing it on the legend passed down the Moriya family, one can discern the Great Suwa War (the fight between the Moriya god and Takeminakata) to be around 1500-1600 years ago.

Emperor Konoe begins to have nightmares. The cause is traced to a dark cloud that appears on the palace rooftop during the night. Minamoto no Yorimasa fires into the cloud and kills the youkai inside. (The Tale of the Heike)

The youkai was commonly believed to be a nue, but was actually a chimera and unrelated to the nue.[13]

These PC-98 games shows the release dates as a possible reference, not what time the actual events take place. The canonicity of the PC-98 games is disputed (see Canon for details), however many later games in the series take place near their release dates, but certainly not on them.

Some later works and statements may imply they took place significantly later than their release dates. Cursory pieces of evidence taken together could imply Story of Eastern Wonderland through Mystic Square took place from 2001 to 2003.

Rinnosuke in Curiosities of Lotus Asia Chapter 22's first half believes that Marisa Kirisame only started using star magic after 2001, while Marisa's strategy guide in Story of Eastern Wonderland's omake says her third attack uses star magic, although that is just one attack. However, by the time Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream takes place, many of her attacks use stars.

Marisa and Reimu are indirectly referred to as "children" in Chapter 22's first half (2001), and Marisa is noted as a child in Lotus Land Story's manual. Although ZUN has stated he doesn't want to give specific ages to those two, the chronology from this becomes more reasonable if Lotus Land Story took place much later than 1998.

Reimu's profile states that Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, which takes place on 2003/08/12, is chronologically not too far from Mystic Square. Also Reimu says in a hidden dialogue that "It's been a while since my last job" in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

The canonicity of this stage is highly questionable since the Seihou Project is set in the future and is a separate series to Touhou. The stage does not use the Hakurei spell card rules, but takes place after the PC-98 games. If the stage predates the Hakurei spell card rules, a 2003 dating for Mystic Square would therefore imply a small window in 2003 for this to take place.

The Bunbunmaru and Kakashi articles are notated in the form e.g. 葉月の五 (Hazuki 5th), as opposed to the standard date form 葉月五日; it is believed that the last number is actually an issue number instead of a day number (e.g. 5th issue of Hazuki rather than 5th day of Hazuki). Supporting this is the fact that the numbers only pass 5 once (120th season, Kannazuki 13th, Mystia's article), which by this hypothesis may be explained by Aya putting out large numbers of extras for the tengu newspaper competition. Moreover, treating the numbers as dates causes a discrepancy between Imperishable Night (Harvest Moon Festival, so 15th day of Hazuki of 119th season) and Sakuya's article (119th season, Hazuki 3rd), which explicitly comes afterward. The timeline is written under this assumption.

↑The kanji 無 usually means 'none', but here it's used in an archaic form to show possession

↑The kanji 無 is probably being used to show possession as with Minazuki. However, there is a false etymology that claims that since in this month the Shinto kami gather at Izumo (in which the month is named Kamiarizuki, Month with Gods) there are no gods in the rest of the country. Other etymologies have been suggested.